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Friday Five

1. I can jog 3.2 miles without taking a break to walk in between. I know because I did it today. And I did it in 31 minutes, which yes, is still slow, but it’s faster than I used to do it. I used to do it in 33 minutes.

2. College Student has an AWESOME internship lined up for this summer. Great experience, will look good on his resume and will likely lead to other amazing things for him, great pay…the only problem is the internship is halfway across the country.

3. I am handling #2 better than I expected to be. But…see #2 (great experience et.). And he IS 18…he started college young, so going away to college was never really an option for him. This will be good for him. And probably good for me, too, to get used to what it will be like when he’s not here. At least I’ll know he’s coming back in 12 weeks!

4. I got feedback on Monkey Man 2 from one of my most-trusted readers and I’m still feeling okay about things. Still working HARD this next week, but it’ll be okay to send it to my editor.

5. It’ll just be Junior High Kid and me tonight…I think we’re going to get monster burritos from Chipotle and have a Veronica Mars marathon (he still hasn’t seen them all). Unless he gets a better offer between now and then. He’s more likely to get a better offer than I am.

Not much you can do about the nose blowing or the stoplights, but can’t you set the ipod so you don’t have to change the song? Or are you just not in the mood to hear a particular song some days?

I have two routes…one involves circling the .8 mile track at the park four times, the other is to head out down the bike path. I like the bike path because it has some killer hills to challenge me, but there is one spot where I have to cross a pretty busy street and though there is a crosswalk there (no light), cars don’t often stop to let a jogger go. I really do lose that momentum when I stop there. But I haven’t managed to jog that whole route yet (because of the hills). I still walk two and a half songs.